🆚 Castr vs. YouTube

Statistics for Castr are still being collected and do not yet reflect its full market share.

Castr

YouTube

Type

Video platform

About

Castr is a cloud-based live video streaming and hosting platform that provides multistreaming and transcoding.

It provides multistreaming to over 30 destinations, including YouTube, Facebook, and Twitch, multi-CDN delivery, RTMP and SRT ingest, live-to-VOD recording, paywall and instream ad monetization, and pre-recorded streaming that broadcasts a scheduled video file as a live stream.

YouTube is the world's largest online video platform and social media service owned by Google that lets users watch, comment on, and upload videos, as well as subscribe to channels.

It supports high-resolution video hosting up to 8K, live streaming with real-time chat and monetization tools, algorithmic recommendations, Shorts for vertical videos, customizable playlists, subtitles, and paid channel memberships.

Headquarters

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Mountain View, California, United States

Website

castr.com #119,784

youtube.com #4

Pricing

Free version ❌Free 7-day trial

Starter
(2 streams, 6 multistream destinations) $19.99/month

Standard
(2 streams, 10 multistream destinations) $49.99/month

Premium
(5 streams, 20 multistream destinations) $199.99/month

Ultra
(10 streams, 30 multistream destinations) $349.99/month

Free version ✔️ Ad-supported

Premium Lite
(ad-free non-music videos) $8.99

Premium
(ad-free, offline videos, and background play) Student $8.99/month
Individual $15.99/month
Family
(5 members) $26.99/month

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

Total websites

Market share

Video Platforms

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

United States

Germany

United Kingdom

Japan

Spain

France

Italy

India

Brazil

Netherlands

Awards

🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Video Platforms category.
🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Video Platforms category.
🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Video Platforms category.
🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Video Platforms category.
🥇 Most popular in Spain in the Video Platforms category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Online Shopping

Education/Reference

Blogs/Wiki

Entertainment

Internet Services

Travel

Health

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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Rank

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Compare alternatives

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🗃️ About This Data

We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
This report is based on the analysis of 3,861,081 websites. However, data for Castr is still being collected and reflects a smaller subset of sites.
Statistics were last calculated on October 13, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.